- 274 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Now in its 10th edition, Dutch: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Dutch as it is used by native speakers.
Features include:
- A brand new chapter on negation;
- A user-friendly style to ensure all elements of the language that are of particular difficulty to English speakers are adequately explained;
- 'Let's Try That' sections in each chapter containing sample exercises;
- More examples and cross-referencing throughout, and a comprehensive glossary and index at the back of the book;
- Full use of examples given throughout illustrating modern usage.
Dutch: An Essential Grammar is the ideal reference source both for those studying Dutch independently and for students in colleges, universities and adult classes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Pronunciation
- Chapter 2 Spelling
- Chapter 3 The plural
- Chapter 4 Articles and demonstratives
- Chapter 5 Present tense and word order
- Chapter 6 Pronouns: subject and object
- Chapter 7 Possessive adjectives and pronouns
- Chapter 8 Pronouns: reflexives and indefinite
- Chapter 9 The verb; hebben and zijn and the imperative
- Chapter 10 Negation
- Chapter 11 Adjectives, adverbs and comparison
- Chapter 12 Numbers and dates, currency and measurement, telling the time
- Chapter 13 The past tense: “weak” verbs
- Chapter 14 The past tense: “strong” verbs
- Chapter 15 Some irregular verbs; the past perfect tense
- Chapter 16 Modal auxiliaries, verbs plus infinitive
- Chapter 17 The future, the continuous, the present participle and the infinitive
- Chapter 18 Colloquial speech and writing
- Chapter 19 Separable and inseparable prefixes
- Chapter 20 Conjunctions and relative pronouns
- Chapter 21 Prepositions
- Chapter 22 Word order: position of the verb in the sentence
- Chapter 23 The word er, prepositional compounds
- Chapter 24 Diminutives
- Chapter 25 The passive voice
- Chapter 26 Idiomatic usages of some common verbs
- Chapter 27 Word formation and derivation
- Chapter 28 Going on
- Strong and irregular verbs in common use
- Key to the exercises
- Dutch–English vocabulary
- Index
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